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More in flight WIFI news

Here’s one for the frequent fliers amongst us. American Airlines has
revealed that they will be offering free wireless internet on all of
their Boeing 767-200s that fly transcontinental routes. The planes will
be equipped with broadband Wi-Fi access courtesy of Aircell, and should
be available to all business class and economy class passengers. If
successful, the service could be expanded to all of American’s flights,
which would be great news as far as we’re concerned. Let’s just hope
they ban any UMA/VoIP capable devices, as we’re pretty sure that
allowing passengers to talk on the phone in-flight could lead to an
increase in in-flight homicides…But it does look like JetBlue has the
right idea.

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Wifi on planes here at last!

Cool! It seems that JetBlue, Yahoo and Research in Motion plan to offer
free, in-flight, WiFi web connections for laptop computers and advanced
cell phones. RIM made the announcement yesterday.

The service will apparently allow passengers to access customized
Yahoo mail and Yahoo instant messenger services on their laptops or to
access corporate e-mails on WiFi enabled BlackBerrys. According to a
spokesperson for RIM the first JetBlue flight offering the service will
be on December 11, on Flight 641 from New York to San Francisco.

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Boarding Pass? Cool or what!

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Your cell phone as a boarding pass?

Continental is the first airline in the U.S. to test the use of cell
phones or PDAs as boarding passes with a pilot program at Bush
Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Rather than being issued paper
passes, passengers will receive a two-dimensional digital bar code on
their phones. The code will be scanned and passengers will still need
to show valid photo ID. If a passenger's phone loses power, they can be
issued a back-up paper pass. If the pilot is successful, the use of
cell phones as boarding passes could extend to other airports and
airlines.

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